They reiterated their call that Cuomo increase school aid by nearly 10 percent, or a $1.9 billion increase. Cuomo proposed a $807 million increase for the 2014-15 fiscal year, which starts April 1. His plan would bring school aid to nearly $22 billion.

"The school-aid dollars are simply devastating. After five straight years of classroom cuts this will mean yet another round of cuts," Billy Easton, ...